Chapter 1
Interpreting that ensures access to community services
What is community interpreting?
All of the languages that you interpret in
What is working languages?
Definition of intervening
What is interrupting the interpreting session -- often to speak in your own voice?
The way that you carry and see yourself in a professional setting
What is professional identity?
The highest guiding principles in the interpreting field
What is ethics?
True or False: Interpreting began in the United States
The three stages of the encounter
What is pre-encounter, encounter, post-encounter?
Definition of bias
What is a partial opinion or view of someting?
The virtual interpreting mode that has to do with a phone
What is OPI?
The guidelines showing interpreters WHAT they should do in the profession
What are standards of practice?
The minimum qualifications to be a community interpreter
What is: be 18, graduate from HS or have GED, be bilingual, pass a 40 hour training course?
The parts of the acronym CALL?
What is Complex, Advanced, Legal, Long?
When in doubt...
What is STAY OUT?
Other than OPI, there are two remote interpreting types. They are...
What is VRI (Video Remote Interpreting) and RSI (Remote Simultaneous Interpreting)?
What is the principle: The interpreter mediates when needed to solve cultural misunderstandings
The difference between a certificate and a certification
What is: a certificate is a document attesting to a fact while a certification is a third party process that allows you to legally perform a job?
Some exceptions for first person?
What is emergencies, when the person is intoxicated, old people with dementia, children who are confused?
When should you intervene
What is when the risk of NOT intervening outweighs the risk of you saying something?
Definition of a language access law?
What is the guarantee that all people will be offered federal services in their native language?
What is the principle: The interpreter limits personal involvement with all parties
The definition of communicative autonomy
What is the right and ability of all parties to be in charge and responsible for their own communication?
The four things to include in your professional introduction -- other than your name and organization
1. I will keep everything confidential
2. I will interpret everything that you say
3. Please speak to each other and not to me
4. If I need you to pause, I will raise my hand
The steps to strategic mediation
What is 1. Interpret what was just said 2. Identify yourself as interpreter 3. Mediate briefly 4. Report your mediation 5. resume interpreting
The most important language access law in the United States
What is Title VI (6) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
List one of the standards of practice and an example of it in the field
Answer may vary: Mrs. Stanley awards points